View my complete profileMy name is Diane Shepard Johnson and my daughter Sarah and I have always loved old fashioned things. We find Tasha Tudor and Beatrix Potter so inspiring. Some of our favorite things and interests are: spinning, weaving, natural dyeing of fiber and yarn, knitting, bobbin lace making, vegetable, herb and flower gardening, old fashioned clothing and frocks, dolls, the old ways of preparing food, canning, corgyn, bunnies, goats, birds, photography, writing, drawing and painting, the old ways of living and old fashioned tasks.The Corgyncombe Courant is our newspaper of some of the highlights of life at Corgyncombe Cottage. Courant is an old term for newspaper.

April 1, 2009

Flower Frocked Dollies

Corgyncombe Library Notes"The Story of The Three Dolls" written by Josephine Scribner Gates and illustrated by Virginia Keep is on display at the Corgyncombe Library. Inside are such interesting stories as "The Story of the Gold Beads", "The Story of the Candy Heart", "The Candy Island", and "Borrowed Feathers". In "The Story of the Gold Beads" the girls decorate the baby, carriage, and her doll with flowers. The same author and illustrator also worked together to make a book called "The April Fool Doll".

Blossom Bugbee, a Hollyhock Doll made by The Corgyncombe Courant Reporters.

Corgyncombe Cottage has its own little doll called April... April Thistledown. Tillie Tinkham was inspired to make April Thistledown's sweet pea outfit by the Hollyhock dolls made by the reporters at The Corgyncombe Courant and was also inspired by an illustration of a lady dressed in a sweet pea outfit.